How long after surgery should I wait before I fly short haul?

It really depends on what type of surgery you had. You need to ask your physician for advice if major surgery was performed. Usually soft tissue structures are well into repair in 28 days from the time of surgery but you may still be sore for much longer than that.

If the surgery was on your hand for example then the next day would not be a problem. If you have open heart surgery then you want a few months for the bones in the chest wall to repair. A sudden stop of the plane could easily send the chest wall into the heart.

Anyhow.. you catch my drift... depending on the extent of the surgery and what was operated on. You don't want to be streching and straining in and out of a seat pulling sutures and ripping things open.

The best person to ask is the surgeon who did the surgery.